Rochester, New York, USA
Police officers search a house for an armed suspect in northeast Rochester.
The group of deprived neighborhoods known as the ‘Crescent’, around the northern edge of downtown Rochester, New York State, USA, is renowned for its high crime and murder rates. Reasons given for these include a depressed local economy, and the large number of empty houses, prone to becoming locations for drug dealing.

Magnum Photos for Postcards from America / Zeit Magazin

August 30, 2012

Rochester, New York, USA
Police officers search a house for an armed suspect in northeast Rochester.
The group of deprived neighborhoods known as the ‘Crescent’, around the northern edge of downtown Rochester, New York State, USA, is renowned for its high crime and murder rates. Reasons given for these include a depressed local economy, and the large number of empty houses, prone to becoming locations for drug dealing.

Rochester, New York, USA
Snoe, a former Latin King gang member now turned successful graffiti and tattoo artist, sits at home in northeast Rochester.
The group of deprived neighborhoods known as the ‘Crescent’, around the northern edge of downtown Rochester, New York State, USA, is renowned for its high crime and murder rates. Reasons given for these include a depressed local economy, and the large number of empty houses, prone to becoming locations for drug dealing.

Magnum Photos for Postcards from America / Zeit Magazin

August 28, 2012

Rochester, New York, USA
Snoe, a former Latin King gang member now turned successful graffiti and tattoo artist, sits at home in northeast Rochester.
The group of deprived neighborhoods known as the ‘Crescent’, around the northern edge of downtown Rochester, New York State, USA, is renowned for its high crime and murder rates. Reasons given for these include a depressed local economy, and the large number of empty houses, prone to becoming locations for drug dealing.

Rochester, New York, USA
Police arrest a man accused of drunkenly harassing passers-by.
The group of deprived neighborhoods known as the ‘Crescent’, around the northern edge of downtown Rochester, New York State, USA, is renowned for its high crime and murder rates. Reasons given for these include a depressed local economy, and the large number of empty houses, prone to becoming locations for drug dealing.

Magnum Photos for Postcards from America / Zeit Magazin

August 30, 2012

Rochester, New York, USA
Police arrest a man accused of drunkenly harassing passers-by.
The group of deprived neighborhoods known as the ‘Crescent’, around the northern edge of downtown Rochester, New York State, USA, is renowned for its high crime and murder rates. Reasons given for these include a depressed local economy, and the large number of empty houses, prone to becoming locations for drug dealing.

Rochester, New York, USA
A man is arrested after having assaulted his father with a samurai sword.
The group of deprived neighborhoods known as the ‘Crescent’, around the northern edge of downtown Rochester, New York State, USA, is renowned for its high crime and murder rates. Reasons given for these include a depressed local economy, and the large number of empty houses, prone to becoming locations for drug dealing.

Magnum Photos for Postcards from America / Zeit Magazin

April 20, 2012

Rochester, New York, USA
A man is arrested after having assaulted his father with a samurai sword.
The group of deprived neighborhoods known as the ‘Crescent’, around the northern edge of downtown Rochester, New York State, USA, is renowned for its high crime and murder rates. Reasons given for these include a depressed local economy, and the large number of empty houses, prone to becoming locations for drug dealing.

Rochester, New York, USA
Youths run away as a police car approaches a corner known as a drug-dealing spot.
The group of deprived neighborhoods known as the ‘Crescent’, around the northern edge of downtown Rochester, New York State, USA, is renowned for its high crime and murder rates. Reasons given for these include a depressed local economy, and the large number of empty houses, prone to becoming locations for drug dealing.

Magnum Photos for Postcards from America / Zeit Magazin

September 1, 2012

Rochester, New York, USA
Youths run away as a police car approaches a corner known as a drug-dealing spot.
The group of deprived neighborhoods known as the ‘Crescent’, around the northern edge of downtown Rochester, New York State, USA, is renowned for its high crime and murder rates. Reasons given for these include a depressed local economy, and the large number of empty houses, prone to becoming locations for drug dealing.

Rochester, New York, USA
Men recently evicted from a tent city in an unused downtown subway, share temporary shelter in an apartment in the Crescent area.
The group of deprived neighborhoods known as the ‘Crescent’, around the northern edge of downtown Rochester, New York State, USA, is renowned for its high crime and murder rates. Reasons given for these include a depressed local economy, and the large number of empty houses, prone to becoming locations for drug dealing.

Magnum Photos for Postcards from America / Zeit Magazin

April 18, 2012

Rochester, New York, USA
Men recently evicted from a tent city in an unused downtown subway, share temporary shelter in an apartment in the Crescent area.
The group of deprived neighborhoods known as the ‘Crescent’, around the northern edge of downtown Rochester, New York State, USA, is renowned for its high crime and murder rates. Reasons given for these include a depressed local economy, and the large number of empty houses, prone to becoming locations for drug dealing.

Rochester, New York, USA
A young mother, whose husband is in jail, sits at home with her four children in the Crescent area of Rochester.
The group of deprived neighborhoods known as the ‘Crescent’, around the northern edge of downtown Rochester, New York State, USA, is renowned for its high crime and murder rates. Reasons given for these include a depressed local economy, and the large number of empty houses, prone to becoming locations for drug dealing.

Magnum Photos for Postcards from America / Zeit Magazin

April 23, 2012

Rochester, New York, USA
A young mother, whose husband is in jail, sits at home with her four children in the Crescent area of Rochester.
The group of deprived neighborhoods known as the ‘Crescent’, around the northern edge of downtown Rochester, New York State, USA, is renowned for its high crime and murder rates. Reasons given for these include a depressed local economy, and the large number of empty houses, prone to becoming locations for drug dealing.

Rochester, New York, USA
A man who was stabbed during a fight is treated by medics. He refused to give the name of the assailant to police, saying that he would take care of the affair himself.
The group of deprived neighborhoods known as the ‘Crescent’, around the northern edge of downtown Rochester, New York State, USA, is renowned for its high crime and murder rates. Reasons given for these include a depressed local economy, and the large number of empty houses, prone to becoming locations for drug dealing.

Magnum Photos for Postcards from America / Zeit Magazin

September 1, 2012

Rochester, New York, USA
A man who was stabbed during a fight is treated by medics. He refused to give the name of the assailant to police, saying that he would take care of the affair himself.
The group of deprived neighborhoods known as the ‘Crescent’, around the northern edge of downtown Rochester, New York State, USA, is renowned for its high crime and murder rates. Reasons given for these include a depressed local economy, and the large number of empty houses, prone to becoming locations for drug dealing.

Rochester, New York, USA
A crime scene in the Crescent area of Rochester.
The group of deprived neighborhoods known as the ‘Crescent’, around the northern edge of downtown Rochester, New York State, USA, is renowned for its high crime and murder rates. Reasons given for these include a depressed local economy, and the large number of empty houses, prone to becoming locations for drug dealing.

Magnum Photos for Postcards from America / Zeit Magazin

April 21, 2012

Rochester, New York, USA
A crime scene in the Crescent area of Rochester.
The group of deprived neighborhoods known as the ‘Crescent’, around the northern edge of downtown Rochester, New York State, USA, is renowned for its high crime and murder rates. Reasons given for these include a depressed local economy, and the large number of empty houses, prone to becoming locations for drug dealing.

Rochester, New York, USA
The funeral of Max King (15), who was shot in the head in August. His was the 25th murder in Rochester since the beginning of 2012.
The group of deprived neighborhoods known as the ‘Crescent’, around the northern edge of downtown Rochester, New York State, USA, is renowned for its high crime and murder rates. Reasons given for these include a depressed local economy, and the large number of empty houses, prone to becoming locations for drug dealing.

Magnum Photos for Postcards from America / Zeit Magazin

August 31, 2012

Rochester, New York, USA
The funeral of Max King (15), who was shot in the head in August. His was the 25th murder in Rochester since the beginning of 2012.
The group of deprived neighborhoods known as the ‘Crescent’, around the northern edge of downtown Rochester, New York State, USA, is renowned for its high crime and murder rates. Reasons given for these include a depressed local economy, and the large number of empty houses, prone to becoming locations for drug dealing.

Rochester, New York, USA
A family in the Crescent area of Rochester.
The group of deprived neighborhoods known as the ‘Crescent’, around the northern edge of downtown Rochester, New York State, USA, is renowned for its high crime and murder rates. Reasons given for these include a depressed local economy, and the large number of empty houses, prone to becoming locations for drug dealing.

Magnum Photos for Postcards from America / Zeit Magazin

April 19, 2012

Rochester, New York, USA
A family in the Crescent area of Rochester.
The group of deprived neighborhoods known as the ‘Crescent’, around the northern edge of downtown Rochester, New York State, USA, is renowned for its high crime and murder rates. Reasons given for these include a depressed local economy, and the large number of empty houses, prone to becoming locations for drug dealing.

The Crescent

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August 30, 2012

Rochester, New York, USA

Police officers search a house for an armed suspect in northeast Rochester.

The group of deprived neighborhoods known as the ‘Crescent’, around the northern edge of downtown Rochester, New York State, USA, is renowned for its high crime and murder rates. Reasons given for these include a depressed local economy, and the large number of empty houses, prone to becoming locations for drug dealing.

Paolo Pellegrin

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Paolo Pellegrin

Paolo Pellegrin was born in 1964 in Rome, Italy. He studied architecture at Sapienza Università di Roma, before moving on to photography at the Istituto Italiano di Fotografia, also in the Italian capital. Between 1991 and 2001, Pellegrin was represented by Agence VU in Paris. In 2001, he became a Magnum Photos nominee, and a full member in 2005. He is a contract photographer for Newsweek magazine in the US and Zeit magazine in Germany.

Pellegrin is the winner of many awards, including ten World Press Photo awards and numerous Photographer of the Year awards, as well as a Leica Medal of Excellence, an Olivier Rebbot Award, the Hansel-Meith Preis, and the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award. In 2006, he was assigned the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography. He lives in New York and London.

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